fish: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 10 letter points · starts with F · ends with H
Meaning of fish
noun
- countable
A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.
Example: Salmon is a fish.
- countable, uncountable
Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.
- Newfoundland, countable, uncountable
Cod; codfish.
- uncountable
The flesh of the fish used as food.
Example: The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
Listed forms: fishes.
Source: Wiktionary — fish.
noun
A period of time spent fishing.
Example: The fish at the lake didn't prove successful.
An instance of seeking something.
Example: Merely two fishes for information told the whole story.
Listed forms: fishes.
Source: Wiktionary — fish.
verb
- intransitive, transitive
To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
Example: We went fishing for crabs by the pier.
- transitive
To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
Example: They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.
- transitive
To use as bait when fishing.
- intransitive
To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
Example: Why are you fishing through my things?
Listed forms: fishes, fishing, fished.
Source: Wiktionary — fish.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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verb
seek indirectly
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fish in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fish
F(4) + I(1) + S(1) + H(4) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of fish
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from fish
8 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in fish. Showing up to 24, longest first.